Proverbs 22:25

because you might start to act like they do and not be able to stop doing that.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

In Context

24Do not become friends with those who often become angry, and do not associate with those who cannot control their temper/anger,

26If someone borrows money, do not be one of those who promises to pay what that person owes he cannot pay it back,

Read all of Proverbs 22

Cross References

Proverbs 4:14Do not do the things that wicked people do; do not behave like they do; do not even walk on the roads that evil people walk on [MET].

1 Corinthians 15:33Do not let yourselves be deceived by those who say that God will not cause believers to live again {Do not let people who say that God will not cause believers to live again deceive you}. If you associate with evil people who say such things, they will ◄influence you to do evil things/destroy your good moral way of living►.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:25-26

Prudential Maxims. 24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. Here is, 1. A good caution against being intimate with a passionate man. It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to. Thought we… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Proverbs 22:25